Quiz study for Anthro/psyc/soc beginning of year - sept 23/15 Flashcards
Define anthropology
The study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space, specifically in relation to physical character, environmental relations, social relations and culture
Define psychology
Mental and behavioral characteristics of an individual or group. It’s also known as the science of mind and behavior
Define sociology
The study of the development, structure, interaction and collective behavior of organized groups of human beings. The scientific analysis of a social institution as a functioning hole and as it relates to the rest of society
Given example of each anthropology, psychology and sociology
Rights of passage, development, effects of social networking
Give examples of Western culture Rights of passage
Weddings, prom, Christmas
Explain the Vanuatu right of passage
It symbolizes the movement from boy to man, some at a very young age. For the first job, the mother holds a toy that the young man likes and then he jumps and she throws the toy. This right of passage is done to ensure a good yam harvest
Explain the Padung woman of Thailand
These women started very young age and have coils around the neck to give up the illusion that they have very long and beautiful necks
How are the Vanuatu men attached to the structure
by vines
What are the three stages of the rights of passage
Ration, transition, and corporation and reintegration
Explain separation
Usually the first stage of a right of passage, the individual is divorce from familiar environment. It involves the loss of identity which is usually abrupt or violent nature.
Give an example of separation
loss of one’s name or intoxication
Define transition
Typically the second stage is also called the liminal stage. This is the “in between time “in which the participant has lost his or her old identity but is not yet been reincorporated into the community with the new identity is frequently a period of confusing. testing and education
Given example of transition
Dyin symbolically, sex reversal
Define incorporation/reintegration
The final stage of the process, usually moving the participants out of isolation and back into the community with a new identity. It may be any of the following, religion, ceremony, communal meal, dancing or exchange gifts
What is the definition of ethnology
Study of the origins and cultures of different races of people
Define kinship
The relationship between two or more people that is based on the common ancestry, marriage or adaption
Define participant observation
The careful watching of a group in some cases living with them and for dissipating in their culture
What is the difference between ethnology and ethnography
Ethnography is the written account of the culture of the people and ethnology is studying the race and the culture
What did Bronislaw Malinowski study
He studied the trobriand Islands in the South Pacific (through the form of participant observation)
What did diamond Jenness study
The oral history of the nomadic Innuinait